How would Lemmy reward original content?
Hamburgers or tacos.
I would like some geographic filtering, or at least sorting, do I can see local stuff before all the USA election posts.
Let’s get rid of cake day but there is already no karma on Lemmy meaning no general upvote count. It will be much harder to find anything if we get rid of a voting system and the one we have is probably the most transparent and easy-to-understand one 2 opposite force and to possibility to choose neighter.
I think it would be cool if you couldn’t see the upvote/downvote score until you voted
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I just disable vote counts from being displayed. I don’t care how popular or unpopular some comment is.
IMO the issue is not copying cherry picked good features from Reddit, but to indiscriminately copy features because “since Reddit has it, Lemmy got to have it too”, without paying attention if they actually benefit the Threadiverse.
Bots are one thing like that. Communities could have features built in that was not possible on Reddit since admins are part of the community now.
Good catch on bots - they’re a great example of that, since the underlying idea (less busy work) is 100% worth copying but not the implementation.
In fact IMO Lemmy bots are already a bit too similar to Reddit bots in a bunch of undesirable ways. For example they’re created and kept as “pseudo-users”, instead of tools associated with a (human) user in their profile.
how do we reward original content?
Toothpaste.
Cake day is cute
Yes. I mean, just because your stupid neighbour celebrates their birthday, it doesn’t mean you would stop celebrating your birthday just to be different.
Counterpoint: birthdays (and cake days, and many anniversaries) are a pointless celebration.
Payton Oswalt had a pretty good plan on that: https://youtu.be/sbJs-Ul1QFo
How are they pointless if they bring people joy? I know there are exceptions but I’m pretty sure people generally really like birthdays…
I will need an explanation of this one. Are you saying that people don’t like birthdays?
Just that once you hit a certain age….its no longer fun to be reminded
The official lemmy interfaces don’t track those things.
The official lemmy interfaces don’t track those things.
Cake Days are shown in the default web interface. Like for this user who posted further down in this thread:
The only thing that would even make sense to bring imo is a leveling system of sorts, straight from the forums of old.
I suggested such a thing a couple days ago on asklemmy and was roundly shut down. Badges, levels, whatever that would denote longevity and “service” to the communities.
Nope.
Is there a place where you can see your useless internet points on lemmy. They are only needed to show the general opinion of the thread. It a superior system to reddits bot fueled lies.
Tap your username or check your profile. Comments/posts are there.
